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The Peace of Breda reaffirmed the United Provinces’ international position and proclaimed the fact that the Netherlanders were still a force to be reckoned with. Under pressure of the Medway disaster, England had agreed to Dutch ownership of Surinam, and had promised to mitigate the most offensive clauses of her Navigation Laws. The Dutch, it is true, had had to relinquish New Netherland, but at that time the colony was considered of much less importance than Surinam, and the Dutch footing had been maintained, both in the Caribbean and on the African coast.
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© 1979 Martinus Nijhoff, Publishers bv, The Hague
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Goslinga, C.C. (1979). The Last Dutch Stand. In: A Short History of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9289-4_8
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